The Patriarchal Age, Or, The History and Religion of Mankind from the Creation to the Death of Isaac: Deduced from the Writings of Moses and Other Inspired Authors and Illustrated by Copious References to the Ancient Records, Traditions, and Mythology of the Heathen World |
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... letters and learning were extensively cultivated and diffused in those ages of which we have undertaken to treat , and were most probably co - eval with our race , and consequently of Divine origin . Another part of the plan may require ...
... letters and learning were extensively cultivated and diffused in those ages of which we have undertaken to treat , and were most probably co - eval with our race , and consequently of Divine origin . Another part of the plan may require ...
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... letters of the Chal- deans : and this was done for the use of those Jews who , being born during the captivity , knew no other alphabet than that of the people among whom they had been educated . Consequently , the old character which ...
... letters of the Chal- deans : and this was done for the use of those Jews who , being born during the captivity , knew no other alphabet than that of the people among whom they had been educated . Consequently , the old character which ...
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... letters , is now made to read , " My ears hast thou opened , " instead of , " A body hast thou prepared me . " § Passing over other cases which deserve attention , we satisfy ourselves with referring to Dr. Owen's remarks on Jer . xi ...
... letters , is now made to read , " My ears hast thou opened , " instead of , " A body hast thou prepared me . " § Passing over other cases which deserve attention , we satisfy ourselves with referring to Dr. Owen's remarks on Jer . xi ...
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... letter from the law , that the name of God may be publicly sanctified , or may not be publicly pro- faned ! " The writings of the rabbies abound with proofs " * DR . OWEN'S " Inquiry , " p . 64 . + See more ample proofs in WHITAKER'S ...
... letter from the law , that the name of God may be publicly sanctified , or may not be publicly pro- faned ! " The writings of the rabbies abound with proofs " * DR . OWEN'S " Inquiry , " p . 64 . + See more ample proofs in WHITAKER'S ...
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... letter ; numerous are the texts which their pupils were taught to alter and to modify to their own views , under the direction , " Read not so , but so . " Above all , we have the conduct and recorded judgment of the Jewish elders ...
... letter ; numerous are the texts which their pupils were taught to alter and to modify to their own views , under the direction , " Read not so , but so . " Above all , we have the conduct and recorded judgment of the Jewish elders ...
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Page 461 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. № Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 479 - And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends : for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 148 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 123 - And GOD said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 166 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx A stone.
Page 297 - Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...
Page 362 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 286 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 500 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 168 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...